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Oud and amber feature in Abdul Samad Al Qurashi's perfume range, with musk also part of the house's aromatic vocabulary. Its history reaches back to 1852, while Treviso's Acca Kappa began as a brushmaking business in 1869. White Moss joined the latter's range in 1997, adding a named fragrance to the brush house's products. Milan's Antica Farmacia di Brera combines its own cosmetic line with pharmacy retail from a Brera address dating to 1812.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / Dubai, UAE
Abdul Samad Al Qurashi has been dealing in oudh, amber, musk, and oriental perfumes since 1852 — six generations of expertise.
Best for Oudh, amber and musk from a six-generation perfume house
Treviso / Online
Grooming and fragrance house founded 1869 near Treviso by German bristle merchant Hermann Krüll, who began in Venice trading bristles before entering brush manufacturing; historically brush supplier to the British Royal Family, it launched its first fragrance, White Moss, in 1997.
Best for White Moss and wooden brushes.
Acca Kappa was established in 1869 by Hermann Krüll Sr, a young Prussian merchant who started his career in Venice trading bristles before taking a partnership at a brush-making factory outside Treviso, which became the company's base. The original business focused on premium brushes and grooming accessories made from fine imported materials; the quality of the work earned Acca Kappa recognition as official brush supplier to the British Royal Family, and by the early 2010s it had become Italy's leading brush manufacturer. The house moved into fragrance relatively late in its history: 1997 saw the launch of its first perfume, White Moss, an aromatic unisex scent built on fresh, spicy and musky notes. What began as an artisanal brush workshop has grown into an internationally distributed grooming and fragrance house, still headquartered in the Treviso area.
Milan / Italy
This Milan pharmacy, open since 1812 in the Brera quarter, is a 'boutique of medicine' offering over-the-counter drugs, supplements, dermocosmetics and its own product line. An in-house point-of-care lab lets customers run quick analyses on the spot.
Best for Pharmacy, Apothecary, Dermocosmetics
414 Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, New York / Online
A New York apothecary since 1838 — gaslight fixtures, Mark Twain’s prescriptions on file, house formulas still compounded.
Best for Apothecary classics & house formulas
Porto / Lisbon / Online
Soap and perfumery house founded in Porto in 1887 by Georges Schweder and Ferdinand Claus; soaps are milled seven times and air-dried on wooden racks for two weeks, a process the brand still uses today under fourth-generation family ownership.
Best for Art-deco wrapped milled soaps from Porto's 1887 soap house
Claus Porto traces to 1887, when German entrepreneurs Georges Schweder and Ferdinand Claus opened a soap and perfume workshop in Porto, Portugal, drawing on local scents and materials. The soaps won gold medals at the Paris and Saint Louis Universal Exhibitions in the years that followed, building an early export reputation. When Schweder and Claus were forced to leave Portugal at the outbreak of World War I, their business partner Achilles de Brito took control of the company and renamed it Claus Porto, the name it carries today. Under de Brito's family, the company has been run across four generations while keeping its original manufacturing method: bars are milled seven times to compress and refine the soap, then set on wooden bread racks to air-dry naturally for two weeks before wrapping. The brand's art-deco-influenced packaging, developed in the early twentieth century, remains part of its identity. Claus Porto operates three retail boutiques today, all in Portugal — its original shop on Rua das Flores in Porto, and two locations in Lisbon on Rua da Misericórdia and Rua do Carmo — alongside international distribution through department stores and specialty retailers. The company continues to produce its soaps, colognes, candles and diffusers using the milling and drying process established in the nineteenth century.
Paris / Online
Paris perfume house launched in 1865 by the heirs of Count Alfred d'Orsay, formalized in 1908 as the Compagnie Française des Parfums d'Orsay; opened a rue de la Paix boutique in 1923 and was revived in 2018 by Æra Nova under Amélie Huynh.
Best for Intimate modern perfumery reviving Comte d'Orsay's dandy heritage
D'Orsay traces its name to Count Alfred d'Orsay (1801-1852), a dandy and amateur perfumer who created fragrances, including L'Eau de Bouquet in 1830, for his companion Marguerite, Countess of Blessington. The house itself was founded after his death: his heirs, including the Grimod family, launched the first D'Orsay perfume commercially in Paris in 1865, and in 1908 the operation was formalized as the Compagnie Française des Parfums d'Orsay, built explicitly to preserve and extend his perfume legacy as a Parisian luxury house. It opened a boutique at 17 rue de la Paix in 1923, decorated by designers Louis Süe and André Mare, alongside a Fifth Avenue location in New York, and ran a production facility at the Château des Bouvets in Puteaux employing up to 500 people across more than a hundred fragrances. The historic house went dormant before being acquired at the end of 2015 by the group Æra Nova, led by Amélie Huynh, which relaunched D'Orsay quietly in 2018.
Apt, Luberon, Provence
Five generations of the Agnel family have distilled lavender and aromatic plants near Apt since 1895. The distillery makes and sells essential oils, floral waters, cosmetics and aromatherapy products, and opens for visits and a shop.
Best for Provençal lavender essential oils, floral waters and cosmetics
Alvear, Recoleta / Online
Fueguia 1833 is a Buenos Aires house for luxury perfumes inspired by Argentine countryside scents, limited edition bottles. Founded in 2010; International online stores and shipping are available.
Best for Luxury perfumes inspired by Argentine countryside scents, limited edition bottles
London / Online
London fragrance house since 1835 — Victorian orientals Phul-Nana and Shem-el-Nessim revived by Brooke family descendants.
Best for Resurrected Victorian scents.
Grossmith is a historic English perfume house founded by John Grossmith in London's City in 1835, now owned and operated by the Brooke family, descendants of the founder. The house became an influential and popular perfume house, operating from 29 Newgate Street (known as The Laboratory of Flowers) and maintaining a factory in Grasse, France. By the early 1900s, Grossmith's formula books contained over 300 products including perfumes, oils, soaps, and cosmetics. Grossmith received a prize medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and exhibited at the Brussels International Exhibition in 1897. The house began its foray into perfumery by following the Victorian craze for Eastern-inspired everything, producing an inaugural line of perfumes featuring exotic names and unusual blends: Hasu-no-Hana, Shem-el-Nessim, and Phul-Nana (created in 1891, meaning lovely flower, presented to Queen Alexandra then Princess of Wales, marking the beginning of a long association with royalty). The company held Royal Warrants from the courts of Greece, Spain, and British royalty during the 1920s. The Brooke family revived the brand in 2006 and reintroduced the original three fragrances, tweaked for modern wearers by Robertet perfumer Trevor Nicholl (2011 update).
Paris / Online
The 1828 dynasty of French perfumery — Shalimar, Mitsouko, Habit Rouge and the bee bottle; five generations of Guerlains, now LVMH’s scented crown.
Best for Shalimar, Mitsouko, Habit Rouge and bee-bottle fragrances
Guerlain is the longest continuous conversation in perfumery. Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain opened on Rue de Rivoli in 1828, won the title of Imperial Perfumer with Eau de Cologne Impériale for Empress Eugénie in 1853, and founded a dynasty: five generations of Guerlain noses, each handing the organ to the next. Jacques Guerlain alone wrote a canon — Mitsouko's peachy chypre (1919), Shalimar's vanilla-smoke orientalism (1925), L'Heure Bleue's melancholy dusk.
The house's inventions are structural to the industry: Jicky (1889) is often called the first modern perfume, the bee bottle of 1853 remains the maison's emblem, and the Guerlinade — tonka, iris, vanilla, bergamot — is the signature accord running under two centuries of formulas. Thierry Wasser, the first non-family in-house perfumer, keeps the organ today, with production at the Orphin manufacture in France; Habit Rouge (1965) holds the men's wing of the canon.
Under LVMH, Guerlain runs from the restored 68 Champs-Élysées flagship: fragrance fountains, bespoke bottle engraving, and Shalimar still sold where empresses shopped.
Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi
Delhi attar house founded 1816 by Lala Gulab Singh and his son Lala Johrimal, originally 'Gulab Gundhi ki Dukaan.' Still family-run in its seventh generation, producing natural fragrance oils via traditional deg-bhapka distillation.
Best for Historic family attar and perfume merchant since 1816.
Gulab Singh Johrimal is a Delhi perfumery founded in 1816 by Lala Gulab Singh, originally from Jhajjar, and his son Lala Johrimal. It began as an attar-manufacturing business known as 'Gulab Gundhi ki Dukaan' and, according to local accounts, counted the poet Ghalib among its early customers. The company's head office has long been on Dariba Kalan, considered Old Delhi's oldest retail market. Still run by the family - now in its seventh generation - the house produces natural fragrance oils using traditional deg-bhapka distillation, a copper-still method for extracting scent from flowers, wood and other botanicals.
Dariba Kalan, Chandni Chowk
Running from the same Dariba Kalan counter in Old Delhi since 1816, Gulab Singh Johrimal distills attars by the traditional deg-bhapka method under seventh-generation perfumer Mukul Gundhi, producing ruh, bakhoor, dhoop and rose water.
Best for Running from the same Dariba Kalan counter in Old Delhi since 1816
Gulab Singh Johrimal has traded from the same Dariba Kalan address in Old Delhi since 1816, when Lala Gulab Singh — an entrepreneur from Jhajjar in what is now Haryana — and his son Lala Johrimal opened a traditional perfumery on what is still the oldest retail market street in the old city. The house works by the deg-bhapka method, a hydro-distillation technique the family traces to the Indus Valley Civilisation: flowers, grasses and earth are packed into a copper still (deg) and condensed through a receiving vessel (bhapka) into a sandalwood or jojoba base, with no synthetic solvents involved. Mukul Gundhi, described as the seventh-generation torchbearer and master perfumer, now runs the counter, continuing a line the family surname itself reflects — "Gundhi" is Sanskrit for perfumer. The range includes single-note attars, ruh (pure distillates), bakhoor, dhoop and rose water, but its best-known productions resist synthetic replication entirely: Ruh Gulab, extracted from Indian Rosa Damascena and marketed as one of India's most expensive scents; Attar Mitti, distilled to capture the smell of parched earth after the first monsoon rain; and Attar Hina, a spiced-sandalwood blend said to have been favored by the poet Mirza Ghalib. Two centuries in, the shop still runs as a working still rather than a bottling counter for outsourced oils.
Kannauj / India
Kannauj Attar traces its lineage to 1872, when Guljari Lal Tripathi began distilling attars as a small family enterprise in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh — the Ganga-Kali confluence town whose perfume trade is recorded back to the seventh-century reign of Harshavardhana and drew Mughal patronage under Jahangir and Noor Jahan.
Best for 150-year-old Kannauj house still distilling attar by the copper-still deg-bhapka method.
Kannauj Attar traces its lineage to 1872, when Guljari Lal Tripathi began distilling attars as a small family enterprise in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh — the Ganga-Kali confluence town whose perfume trade is recorded back to the seventh-century reign of Harshavardhana and drew Mughal patronage under Jahangir and Noor Jahan. The Tripathi family's fifth generation, led today by Abhishek Tripathi and Devanshi Mishra, formalized the business as Ancient Fragrances Private Limited in 2020 while keeping production on the deg-bhapka method: fragrant steam from a wood- or cow-dung-fired copper still travels through bamboo pipes into submerged condenser pots, where it infuses sandalwood oil — a technique the house's own account describes as predating Grasse's perfume industry. Kannauj's attar tradition received Geographical Indication protection in 2014, formally recognizing the deg-bhapka craft as regional heritage. The house now ships natural attars, essential oils, and alcohol-free perfumes to more than fifty countries from the same town its founder worked in over 150 years ago, trading through a live e-commerce site rather than a single shopfront.
Online
New York’s 1851 East Village apothecary — Ultra Facial Cream, Crème de Corps, and pharmacy-white utilitarian charm.
Best for Ultra Facial classics.
109 Third Avenue, New York, NY
The first Kiehl's store opened in 1851 as an old-world apothecary at 13th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan.
Best for Kiehl’s Original Musk fragrance
Paris / Online
The scent line of the Paris nightclub turned hotel — 1885 hedonism in candle and eau form.
Best for Candles and eau de toilette from a legendary 1885 Paris nightclub-turned-hotel
Dr. Julius-Leber-Str. 13, Lübeck Altstadt
Operating from a Romanesque-Gothic patrician house built around 1230, which the pharmacy describes as one of Germany's oldest citizen houses, the Löwen-Apotheke has dispensed medicine in Lübeck since 1812 and has stayed in the same family since 1898, now in its fourth generation. Beyond prescriptions, the pharmacy formulates more than sixty herbal remedies and natural cosmetics under its own Löwen-Manufactur label, sold at the counter and through its online shop.
Best for Historic apothecary remedies and natural cosmetics
GALERIES LAFAYETTE
Revived 1827 Parisian perfumery — neo-vintage compositions of the Second Empire. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for Neo-vintage Second Empire fragrance compositions from a revived 1827 Parisian perfumery.
Maison Violet is a Parisian perfume house tracing its founding to 1827, when François-Étienne Violet began composing fragrances that would come to mark a formative period in French perfumery and cosmetics. The house operated from several Paris addresses across the nineteenth century, most notably 12 Boulevard des Capucines, and built its reputation partly through royal patronage: in 1842 Violet was named an official supplier to Empress Eugénie and to Queen Isabella II of Spain, an honor marked by a bee -- the Empress's personal emblem -- stamped onto every bottle the house produced from then on. Maison Violet held multiple perfumery patents over its lifetime and collected industry awards that reinforced its standing among the era's serious fragrance houses. Like many nineteenth-century maisons, it did not survive the twentieth century intact: the business fell dormant around 1955 as economic pressures eroded it. It remained inactive for six decades until 2015, when three entrepreneurs revived the name, developing what the brand describes as neo-vintage compositions evoking the sensibility of the Second Empire rather than contemporary perfumery trends. Today the reborn Maison Violet is distributed through select department-store partners, including Galeries Lafayette in Paris, rather than through an owned boutique of its own.
Lincoln Square
Founded in 1875 by Swiss immigrant Peter Merz and run by the Trotta family since 1972, this Lincoln Square apothecary marked its 150th year in 2025 stocking European soaps, herbal tinctures, homeopathic remedies, and hard-to-find grooming goods. Its wooden cabinets hold thousands of natural and imported personal-care products gathered from around the world.
Best for Natural remedies and imported soaps
Paris / Online
Grasse family house since 1849 — Habanita, the 1921 scandal-scent, and Lalique-bottled history. Habanita began in 1921 as a perfume for tobacco and was offered to consumers in 1924 (Perfume Projects). Official page dates Habanita 1921.
Best for Grasse perfumes and custom fragrance workshops
Saint-Germain / Marais
Revival of a Paris perfumery founded by Jean-Vincent Bully in 1803 on rue Saint-Honoré, relaunched in 2014 by Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A second boutique opened in the Haut-Marais in 2017; stores are designed as 19th-century-style apothecaries.
Best for Ramdane Touhami's 1803 apothecary revival — water-based perfumes and combs
Officine Universelle Buly takes its name and concept from a perfumery originally opened in Paris in 1803 by Jean-Vincent Bully, whose shop on rue Saint-Honoré sold perfumes and toilet vinegars before closing after the 1830 Revolution. The name and heritage were revived in 2014 by Ramdane Touhami and his wife Victoire de Taillac-Touhami, who reopened the brand as Officine Universelle Buly 1803 with a first boutique on rue Bonaparte in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, followed by a second store in the Haut-Marais in 2017. The brand is now headquartered at 27-29 rue Guénégaud in Paris's 6th arrondissement. Its stores are built to evoke a 19th-century French apothecary or pharmacy, with marble-topped walnut counters, wooden cabinetry and staff uniforms designed to echo the period, extending to the packaging and branding of the products themselves. The range includes water-based perfumes, skincare, hair oils, soaps and grooming tools such as combs, largely produced using natural ingredients, with manufacturing described as taking place partly in France and partly in Japan. The revival built on Touhami's earlier work relaunching heritage French houses and became one of the more widely imitated 'apothecary theatre' retail concepts in French niche beauty over the following decade.
Munich
An independent niche perfumery with house fragrances filled and labeled by hand. Founded in 1893 and appointed a Royal Purveyor to the Court in 1905.
Best for House fragrances filled and labeled by hand
London / Online
British perfumery house founded in 1870 by William Penhaligon, a Jermyn Street barber who became Court Perfumer to Queen Victoria. Launched Hammam Bouquet in 1872; still trades under the same name today.
Best for English dandy perfumery.
Penhaligon's traces to 1870, when William Henry Penhaligon, a Cornish-born barber who had worked at the Hammam Turkish baths on Jermyn Street, opened his own barbershop nearby in London's Mayfair. As was common practice for barbers of the era, he began formulating his own grooming products for clients, and in 1872 created his first fragrance, Hammam Bouquet, named for the baths where he'd trained. His clientele included politicians, Oscar Wilde, and reportedly the Shah of Persia, and he was eventually appointed Court Barber and Perfumer to Queen Victoria. In 1880 he went into partnership with his foreman to form Penhaligon's & Jeavons, and his son Walter later created Blenheim Bouquet for the Duke of Marlborough - a scent still in the current range. The house has since passed through several ownership changes and is now part of the Spanish beauty group Puig.
Online
Plisson 1808 is a French shaving house whose brushes and razors are handmade in its Brittany ateliers, drawing on more than two centuries of manufacture. The online shop carries badger and synthetic brushes, safety and straight razors, soaps, men's skincare and its 1808 fragrance collection.
Best for Shaving, grooming, brushmaking
Hyderabad / India
In the lanes of Pather Gatti near Hyderabad's Charminar, Purandas Ranchhoddas & Sons has distilled ittar since 1896, when the family patriarch Purandasji began trading perfumes and cosmetics after migrating from Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh.
Best for Nizam-era Hyderabadi ittar traded from the same Charminar-area shop for five generations.
In the lanes of Pather Gatti near Hyderabad's Charminar, Purandas Ranchhoddas & Sons has distilled ittar since 1896, when the family patriarch Purandasji began trading perfumes and cosmetics after migrating from Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh. His son Ranchhoddasji expanded into hair oils and other lines through the twentieth century, and the house won its defining honor in 1920, when the Nizam of Hyderabad's court selected Purandas as an official ittar supplier — legend holds the Nizam sampled scents personally before signaling his men to buy. A fire destroyed the original shop near Mecca Masjid; the family rebuilt at its present Gulzar Houz address in 1935 and has traded there since, now into a fifth generation. The house still distills alcohol-free attars — among them Hara Gulab and Jhankar — by the same methods used in the 1920s, sourcing sandalwood-oil bases and other raw materials from Mumbai, Kolkata, and France, alongside incense sticks and traditional hair oils like Zulf-e-Kashmir. No standalone website survives, but the shop trades daily and maintains an active IndiaMART storefront, a JustDial listing carrying over a hundred customer ratings, and a Facebook page — the ordinary commercial footprint of a Charminar-area heritage trader, not a tourist-facing brand.
Paris / Online
Roger & Gallet is a Paris fragrance house founded in 1862, with an earlier connection to Jean Marie Farina's cologne business. Its range brings together cologne and scented waters with round soaps and other fragranced body products. The soaps retain the house's cauldron-making tradition, including a Cédrat version built around a citrus fragrance.
Best for Cologne, scented round soaps and fragranced body care
Roger & Gallet is a Paris fragrance house established in 1862 by Armand Roger and Charles Gallet. Its history reaches further back through Jean Marie Farina's Paris cologne business, which began in 1806. Cologne remains part of the house's identity alongside scented soaps and body products intended for everyday use.
The round soap introduced in 1879 is a recognisable part of that range, rather than simply a packaging detail. The house still describes a cauldron-making process for its soaps, including the citrus-scented Cédrat version in its current catalogue. Those products provide a different format for fragrance from a bottle of eau de cologne or scented water.
Roger & Gallet's retail history includes the Boutique du Bonheur opened on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1932. Illustrations by artists including Mucha and Icart formed part of the house's presentation, bringing visual design into its fragrance story. That boutique belongs to the house's history: the current catalogue represents the brand, and no current Paris shop to visit has been confirmed. For choosing a product, the useful distinction is between fragrance to wear and scented products for washing or body care.
Paris / Online
Perfume house founded in Algeria in 1893 by physician-chemist Theodore Cabanel, moved to Paris in 1908; revived in 2003 by Caroline Illacqua, who worked with perfumer Jean-Francois Latty to launch the amber fragrance Alahine in 2007.
Best for Alahine's amber fragrance from this revived 1893 French perfume house
Teo Cabanel was founded in 1893 in Algeria by Theodore Cabanel, a French doctor and chemist; the house relocated to Paris in 1908 and, according to its own history, counted the Duchess of Windsor among its clients before fading from activity over the following decades. The house was revived in 2003 under Caroline Illacqua, who had a family connection to Cabanel's daughter and drew on more than 150 original perfume formulas preserved from the founding era. Illacqua brought in perfumer Jean-Francois Latty, previously known for work on fragrances for Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy, and together they launched Alahine in 2007 - a floral-oriental built around amber, widely reviewed by niche-perfume writers as one of the house's signature scents.
Jamhuri St, Dar es Salaam
Zawadis.com sells watches, fragrances, sunglasses, bags, jewelry and wallets from brands including Tissot, Citizen, Orient and Cerruti 1881, and fragrance houses such as Chanel, Dior and Creed. It operates physical retail outlets in Tanzania alongside e-commerce, with click-and-collect and country-wide shipping.
Best for Branded watches and fragrances
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